Eugene, Ore. - The University of Oregon’s Outdoor Program has received a $200,000 grant from the Associated Students of the University of Oregon to develop a bike share system on campus.

Project organizers want to install four bike stations with approximately 10 bikes at each station.

Under the plan, students will be able to rent out a bike after paying a one-time annual fee to the university. Students then will be able to rent out a bike from one of the four stations using their student ID card.

After a student has checked out a bike, he or she will have a set amount of time before they have to return the bike to one of the four stations so that other students can use it.

“What the bike share is, is a way to allow folks to access bikes in a public space,” said bike program manager Briana Orr.

Orr also said that the purpose of the bike share is to make transportation easier for students on campus without having to deal with any upkeep on the bikes.

Outdoor Program project organizers say they do not have a specific date on when the stations will be installed on campus, but they have decided the designs of the bikes they will be using and which contractor will install the stations.

The Outdoor Program is currently negotiating the terms of management of the bike share with both the university and B-Cycle.

B-Cycle, a Wisconsin bike vendor, has built and managed several similar bike share stations in other U.S. cities, including Denver and Charlotte.